Friday, June 02, 2006

"Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."--Isaiah 12: 6

It's really summer now: the windows are open, the ice cream trucks are driving around playing their treacly music, gangsta cars are cruising, construction is happening all around us. I was very aware of all the energy, the noise, the creative (and sometimes destructive) collisions of millions of people living cheek by jowl, during Holy Mass last night. It is poignant to think of God coming to dwell in the midst of the city, coming to share in all the pageantry and turmoil of the city.

I have many more thoughts on city life--we'll see how much I can get posted. God's blessings on all of you who visit this site!

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If I, who seem to be your right hand and am called Presbyter and seem topreach the Word of God, If I do something against the discipline of the Churchand the Rule of the Gospel so that I become a scandal to you, The Church, thenmay the whole Church, in unanimous resolve, cut me, its right hand, off, andthrow me away.

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The Roman Catholic Monastery of the Holy Cross was founded in 1989 and became a Benedictine house of the Subiaco Congregation in 2000. We follow a traditional contemplative life, chanting Psalms seven times a day and singing Gregorian chant at the Eucharist. We do this in a distinctive way by living our monastic life on the South Side of Chicago. Prior Peter, the author of this blog, was appointed Prior in August of 2004.